Hi! > maybe it is just a stupid question, but is there a way to find out > whether a mainboard bios supports LBA48 or not?
Mine (Award 4.51 BIOS) had a bug which would made it crash for disks bigger than 32 or 64 GB. I downloaded a patched version by some Dutch guy. Then I just plugged a 200 GB disk, the BIOS said "128 GB" (or 130-something in decimal GB) disk detected and booted without problems. Linux has built-in LBA48, so it can access the whole disk. FreeDOS has no such drivers, so as soon as it hits the first partition beyond the first 128 GB, it shows an error message and stops looking for drive letters. Otherwise it works fine and accesses all drive letters in the first 128 GB okay :-). If FreeDOS could re-scan the partition table after loading the UDMA2 DOS driver with built-in LBA48, FreeDOS could even reach beyond my BIOS limit... But to answer your question: If the BIOS thinks that your disk is only 128 GB, it supports no LBA48. Eric ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: Power Architecture Resource Center: Free content, downloads, discussions, and more. http://solutions.newsforge.com/ibmarch.tmpl _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
